On 06/05/07, Gwern Branwen gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
On 0, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com scribbled:
We do. We only use the Lucene search because someone ported it from Java to Mono.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Java at least open source these days? And Mono was uncertain with regard to Microsoft's patents, last I heard...
Java not yet, and Mono not that they've actually told anyone rather than just FUDding. Also, quite a lot of software patents were suddenly put on shaky ground by the US Supreme Court.
But yeah, when enough of Java is freed, I suspect going back to the upstream version of Lucene will be considered.
- d.